Tabula Rasa Review

Lili Louzhi is a Chinese American poet and writer. Her writing obsesses over myths versus reality, lost origins, and the long-term effects of fusing and severing. Her work has also appeared in Pirene’s Fountain: A Journal of Poetry, Portland Review, and Vagabond City Lit. She currently resides in Maryland with her husband and is attending the University of Maryland to become a librarian.

A native New Yorker, Elgin Award winner LindaAnn LoSchiavo is a member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. She is an October Scorpio who adores Hallowe’en. 

Current Publications:

• Messengers of the Macabre: Hallowe’en Poems (Audience Askew)
• Women Who Were Warned (Cerasus Poetry)
• Vampire Ventures (Alien Buddha Press)
• Apprenticed to the Night (UniVersePress)
• Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide (Ukiyoto Publishing)
• Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems (Wild Ink Publishing)

Forthcoming Titles:

• Cancer Courts My Mother (Prolific Pulse Press)
• Vampire Verses (Twisted Dreams Press, 2025)

Mary Fontana trained as a scientist and did infectious disease research for over a decade before turning to writing full-time. Her first book, a narrative history of the migrant house of hospitality where she has volunteered for the past two decades, is forthcoming from Orbis Books. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Seneca Review, Rust + Moth, SWWIM, Moss, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle. Since her publication with Tabula Rasa Review, she has had poems published in The Wild Umbrella, MER, Scraps, and Marrow, a short story published in The Lemonwood Quarterly, a book review in ONLY POEMS. Sign up for her newsletter at maryfontana.com to stay informed about her forthcoming book.

Michael J. Kocinski II is a grant writer and program evaluator, poet, and illustrator from Columbus, OH. Some of his poems have appeared in The Mid-American Review, Of Rust and Glass, Trailer Park Quarterly, and others. If you’re looking for him, he can be found fishing the Olentangy River watershed or drawing at the dining room table. He lives with his wife and two sons, who are all wonderful creatures. Since he was published in Tabula Rasa Review, he had his first ever solo gallery show. Entitled ‘Always an Apple,’ the show featured 40 wildlife portraits that he drew on his son’s paper lunch bag when he was in elementary school. Some examples can be found here: instagram.com/snacktimearts. His poem “Lux” was published in Peachfuzz Journal and a piece of nonfiction was selected for an anthology entitled Letters to Our Children. 

Michelle Meyer writes poetry and micro flash fiction. She is the author of The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child (Cornerstone Press, 2024) and The Book of She (2021). Individual poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, ONE ART, Pearl Press, Tabula Rasa Review, Welter, and elsewhere. Flash pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in 100-Word Fiction, 50-Word Stories, and Ink in Thirds. In addition, Michelle has written, directed, and produced one-act plays and skits for children and adults. She was also the winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad Ekphrastic Challenge, and is currently growing a large veggie garden in western Wisconsin.

R. A. Allen’s poetry appeared in the New York Quarterly, B O D Y, The Penn Review, RHINO, The Los Angeles Review, Glassworks, Cloudbank, etc. His work has been nominated for a Best of Net and two Pushcarts. He has short stories in magazines such as The Literary Review, The Barcelona Review, PANK, and Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in Memphis, a city of light and sound.

River Snowdrop (they/them) is a queer trans poet from Manchester, UK. They have since been published in Free Verse Revolution, Gypsophila Zine, Silly Goose Press and more! You can find links to all their work at linktr.ee/snowdroppubs. They have been writing particularly about transition lately, and hope that whatever stage into which you stumble, they will still be transforming; new.

Thomas Rions-Maehren (he/him), along with being a poetry reader for wildscape. literary journal, is a bilingual poet, novelist, and educator. His research has been published in ACS Nano, and examples of his Spanish-language prose can be found in his published short stories and in his novel En las Manos de Satanás (Ápeiron Ediciones, 2022). More of his poetry in both languages can be found in a number of journals, such as Pensive, The Elevation, Welter, Irradiación, Casapaís, and Iguales Revista, and at his website (thomasrionsmaehren.com). He is on Instagram and Bluesky @MaehrenTom.